Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-27 Thread John Wilson
On July 26, 2004 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 05:36 pm, John Wilson wrote: On July 25, 2004 10:56 am, Keith Powell wrote: On Sunday 25 Jul 2004 18:39, PM wrote: snip Mandrake Community was a beta, replaced by Official. There's now 10.1 beta.

[newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to posting it again, I

[newbie] SpamAssasin with Evolution

2004-07-27 Thread RAT
How do I get Evolution work with SpamAssasin? R Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi guys, A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way clear to

Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Graham, And the link is A few days ago, someone posted a link to a tutorial on making backups that could be split to fit on cds. I thought I'd saved the link but now I can't find it. I've been to the archives and can't find it there either. So if someone could see their way

Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Graham Watkins
http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus Registered Linux user number 265254 http://counter.li.org

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-27 Thread Aron Smith
bascule wrote: stephen, i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs. if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-27 Thread frankieh
bascule wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside - unless someone was

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:50 -0400 Thanks for the tip, d00d, but I had an epiphany...well maybe that's giving it too much significance...anyway, in a few days www.freeyourmachine.org should be live and continuing my sinister plan to bore the world to death. Joe; Not to worry! Your

Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.

2004-07-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What does F5 do I never had to do that before? It refreshes

[newbie]Camera with SD card

2004-07-27 Thread jacques
I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing new in

RE: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Dennis DuffnerSent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:51 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Jeff Reid
I've had good luck with www.registerfly.com , and I feel comfortable giving them a good recommendation. Jeff - Original Message - From: Tony S. Sykes To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 8:30 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] [OT] Domain name

[newbie] MathML

2004-07-27 Thread EE
Does any of the Linux browsers support MathML? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows

2004-07-27 Thread Jeff Reid
I downloaded the OpenCD yesterday, and I'm looking forward to checking it out! Jeff - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:25 PM Subject: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows I don't know how many of the list-members

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread frankieh
You have? might I ask what type of bad experiance? I ask becaues I've been using them for all my domains, so if there is a problem, I'd rather know about it now then later. rgds Franki Tony S. Sykes wrote: I have had a bad experience with godaddy so I could not recommend them myself.

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 25 July 2004 14:14, Erylon Hines wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 04:04 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: | I need to install filters but have forgotten how they should be set | up and at the moment I cant find my notes. I have trained | spamassassin with enough email (spam ham) so they should

RE: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I was doing a domain name transfer, the people who had it refused to transfer after about 1 month so I thought nothing of it, godaddy charged me each month for hosting the web site even though they were not hosting it. I noticed this after 4 months (don't check my account very often) and asked

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the subject,

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Dennis Duffner
ROTFLMAO At 10:50 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:50 -0400 Lanman disseminated the following: Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new one? 'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-) /joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the

Firefox TinyURL extension, was Re: [newbie] Link to cd backup tutorial

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:36:56AM +0100, Graham Watkins wrote: http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 If y'all use Firefox and aren't using the TinyURL extension, get it now! This great extension uses the tinyurl site to generate

[newbie] Program to serve as a database for the contents of CDs

2004-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for a program to serve as a database for the contents of my data CDs. Could somebody here give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered

2004-07-27 Thread dennis
From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/07/26 Mon PM 08:17:35 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered On Monday 26 July 2004 08:59 pm, Lanman wrote: et wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004 07:09 pm, Lanman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: [newbie] Problem with konqueror.

2004-07-27 Thread SME Server Admin
On Tuesday 27 Jul 2004 13:14, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 17:53, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 02:45, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 24 July 2004 10:22, SME Server Admin wrote: Press F5 when you put a new disc in? Elwyn Thanks that works. What

Re: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered

2004-07-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/07/26 Mon PM 08:17:35 CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered On Monday 26 July 2004 08:59 pm, Lanman wrote: et wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004

Re: [newbie] Program to serve as a database for the contents of CDs

2004-07-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 02:16, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a program to serve as a database for the contents of my data CDs. Could somebody here give me some directions? Thanks in advance, Paul gtktalog It's quick and easy to use. stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie]Camera with SD card

2004-07-27 Thread András Keszei
Back in Mandrake 9.2, I had something similar with a Minolta DimageX. When I first plugged it in, nothing happened. Then the next time I tried some days later, voila, it accepted it normally, meaning I could mount it from root. It still wasn't automatically added to the desktop. Then I just had

[newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message I get is

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
Dennis Duffner wrote: ROTFLMAO Dennis Duffner It's allowed Dennis, but don't do it in public or on a crowded transit bus! That would be bad! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was definitely a spoofed address cause I did not send it. My comp is totally Mandrake Linux and use kmail. Dennis M. Didn't think it was you Dennis. When checking the archive, I saw that it came from someone else up the chain. Use the link above and you'll see what

Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
Todd Slater wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 05:55:32AM -0400, Lanman wrote: Joe; Not to worry! Your new domain is working, and so is your philosophy! Grin! But you need to update your contacts page,... http://www.freeyourmachine.org/contact.php Just thought I'd let you know. And while I'm on the

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 03:12, Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers.

Re: [newbie] OT; An alternative to windows

2004-07-27 Thread Tomas Tudja
Little help... if somebody have downloaded an *.iso, it is no need to burn it, you can extract the files from it under windows by using a Magic ISO Maker utility. Search google to find a downloadable evolution version (1.7M) Best Regards Catcher - Original Message - From: Jeff Reid

Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-27 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On July 27, 2004 01:36, John Wilson wrote: ... Now if we could just do something about bittorrent. :-) ttfn John Actually, there is something we can all do about bittorrent, or at least those of us on high speed connections: leave your bittorrent client running, even after you've

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-27 Thread flesh.99
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 17:44:43 +0800, frankieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bascule wrote: On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence an attack on

[newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a LiveCD. Also, it has to be for an RPM-based distro.

Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script

2004-07-27 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On July 22, 2004 07:47, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2004 05:54 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: I don't want to run my own mail server (not at the moment). I rely on my isp for sending and receiving email. Is there a simple way to do this? Can I somehow tell kmail to do it for

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by several mailservers to verify 'official' mail servers. (Probably to weed out spammers.) The message

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Paul
Op Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:35:09 +1000 schreef Stephen Kühn: Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). I do know that if you change your settings to directly send to your ISP's smtp server, you won't get this

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread flesh.99
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:01:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a system called Sorbs (http://www.dnsbl.nl.sorbs.net). Seems that this is a system that is used by

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:58:39PM -0400, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will

Re:[newbie]Camera with SD card

2004-07-27 Thread Dave Ashmore
jacques wrote: I have got a TRUST 910Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] digital Camera (plugged on USB) which works perfectly with MDK10 com. If I plug a SD 128mB card into the camera , Linux doesn't see the cam anymore . During the boot , I get sda was added , but nothing appears on the desktop . Nothing

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread flesh.99
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:27:25 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: flesh.99 wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:01:26 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: Hi everyone, Lately more and more mail I send out gets intercepted and returned through a

Re: [newbie] www.eslrahc.com fallen over?

2004-07-27 Thread flesh.99
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:41:45 -0400, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:40:26 +0100 Inhabitant of Zion wrote: I tried to get a rpm down from Charles site and was getting 404 errors. I assume I'm not the only one? Hope its nothing too serious Charles and

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-27 Thread flesh.99
-- SNIP -- Setting up the commands to install RPM's in userspace would not be that hard. Most of the framework is already there. You can tell RPM to use a database in the user's home direstory instead of the system database. The bigest problem is that most RPMs are not

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will not be a

Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-27 Thread Paul Smith
_nasturtium wrote: I have not been able to have KMPlayer working on any other sites. However, it plays the mp3 files in my hard disk. Do you have xine installed? I'm not sure if mplayer supports .asx. (For xine, you might have to link directly e.g. http://10.133.169.15:80/tsfdirecto instead of

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Monday 26 July 2004 14:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:12, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand. I filter

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-27 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Monday 26 July 2004 14:36, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:12, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote: Try using spamc as spamd is just a

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Lanman
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find a GPL'ed installer application for the Linux Operating System? I am working on a project, and I need something like Anaconda. I can't use a LiveCD installer for this, since the finished project will

Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers

2004-07-27 Thread Tobinator Stark
Try going to redhat's website - Original Message - From: Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 18:08:24 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux OS Installers Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 04:58, Lanman wrote: Does anyone know where I can find

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 01:12 pm, Paul wrote: Does anyone know how I can keep using Postfix instead of having to use my ISPs mail server? The latter is down VERY much, making it a pita to use. There are three possible solutions to this problem. 1. You can contact the ISP that is rejecting

Re: [newbie] Sending email from a script

2004-07-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 02:20 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: Thanks, esmtp is exactly what I needed. It would have been nice if Mandrake installed this by default. I was trying to use the mail command, but it just dies with an error that /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing. But I suppose it wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Sorbs/Postfix

2004-07-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:16 pm, flesh.99 wrote: good to go. This is about the only solution. I fight with the blocklists every day in the course of work and they are no fun, I have come to really hate them. They may have a good concept behind them, but the implementation really bites, and

[newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Wafa Hakim
Hi all, First up, let me introduce myself. I'm Wafa, a grad student of economics, I've been running various versions of Mandrake for over a year now - I started with 9.0 now have 9.2 running smoothly on a Dell desktop at home. The problem is with my Toshiba A45-S121 notebook, on which I'm

Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if that

Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Wafa Hakim
Hi, Thanks - I tried it, but no luck. I got exactly the same error messages, when I tried linux noapic then again when I tried acpi=off. Here are the errors, in more detail: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in

Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0

2004-07-27 Thread Bill Spatz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:22 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. This sounds to me as one of the following: a - bad burn of

Re: [newbie] Won't play MIDI

2004-07-27 Thread Josenildo Marques
Em Qua, 2004-07-21 às 02:32, David E. Fox escreveu: No go (at least for the first part) -- there is just nothing coming out of the speakers. Other sounds work. I tried Test Sound in KDE config menu under Sound - OK on Test Sound but nothing on Test Midi. I may try the other possible method

Re: [newbie] kernel.h and lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Terence Golightly
Mikkell/List: See below: On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 13:06, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Terence Golightly wrote: List, I just got done upgrading to a new kernel and cleaning up my lilo.conf of older kernel and src versions, when I noticed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ ls -l /boot total

[newbie] My Web site

2004-07-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
For those who may have noticed or were concerned my site is Now Back Online Charles -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe. - Mandrake Linux 10.1 on PurpleDragon 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-07-27 Thread newbie
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. = In This Message = 1. General Mailing list info 2. Leaving the list 3. List news 4. List Etiquette 5. Twiki 1.

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 10:32 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: whack My spam load is very low: Ham=4105 Spam=981 about 24%. Hoyt: I wouldn't call 24% low -- my personal scream and yell threshold is about 15%, and I'm running comfortably below that at present. My ISP runs a reasonably effective spam

Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 03:39 pm, flesh.99 wrote: it's all above, folks I'm not sure this is a good idea, guys. Ease of use is one of the main reasons for all of those rooted PC's out there that keep spamming us. It's also the main source of all of those emails to windows help lists that